On 14 March 2026 at 3 pm a performance “everybody loves to lose” by Saulė Noreikaitė will be presented at Atletika Gallery as the closing event of the exhibition “risen dust”. The exhibition runs until 14 March.
“everybody loves to lose” is a solo performance that combines text, choreography and a costume created especially for this piece. The basis of the piece is short text fragments – some of them written over the past two years, some selected from previous notes. They are combined sporadically, poetically, fragmentarily, preventing the viewer from following a coherent narrative line. Such a structure reflects the changing course of thought and the experience of loss itself – inconsistent, recurring, intermittent. The costume created especially for this piece consists of several layers. It reflects not only the physical layering of the body, but also the existence of emotional, spiritual, energetic – invisible and unfeeling – dimensions of the body. Reflecting on how the body and thinking change when things disappear, the author raises the question: what appears after disappearance? Is loss just emptiness, or does it create a new state, a new perception of the body?
Saulė Noreikaitė is an artist working in between the fields of visual art and dance. Her main interest lays in (re)discovering (socio)cultural notions related to human bodies and their belonging to certain environments. In her practise she is questioning what does it mean to have a body in the 21st century, how the relations to our bodies change due to various environmental and societal factors, and how do we care for and make use of the physical possibilities of our existence.
The exhibition “risen dust” features works by Anna Chostegian, Saulė Noreikaitė, Monika Pakerytė, Neda Rimaitė, Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė, and Jurga Šarapova. It is curated by Nunilo Rumbutis, Marijonas Verbel, and Viltė Barbora Vilūnaitė.
The exhibition draws the gaze to workers becoming entangled in the institutional webs. As collections of gathered works and experiences are unfolded, dust is caringly swept aflight from institutional and personal archives. Hints of passing time and forgotten dreams rise into the air, awakening investigative curiosity. Dust becomes evidence — a witness to distraction and oblivion — dancing in the light of concealed corners. Currents and draughts intertwine while carrying stories and lived experiences. Within narratives of everyday labour, grains of togetherness, shared language, and inspiration settle. This time, subtle fragilities take centre stage. What we merely skim with our eyes becomes an unavoidable hint. Emerging from mysterious boxes in varied material forms, the artworks gently scrape away the ridges of cracked and exhausted surfaces, lightly erasing traces of an imagined uprising. These blurred testimonies, carrying specks of dust deeper into the crevices of institutions, reveal internal processes. While observing the decay unfolding beneath a film of dust, a careful contemplation of timelessness emerges, revealing the grooves left by empty pursuits and meaningless tasks.
Performance
14/03/2026, 3 pm. The performance will be held in English. Duration ~20 min.
Exhibition
05/02/2026–14/03/2026
Thursdays & Fridays 16.00–19.00, Saturdays 14.00–18.00, Sundays 08/02, 15/02, 22/02, 01/03, 13.00–16.00.
Address – Atletika Gallery, Vitebsko St. 21, Vilnius
Photography by Emma Fishwic
Organized by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. The activities of LIAA are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Vilnius City Municipality. Exhibition partners – the Vilnius Graphic Art Centre and the Kazys Varnelis House–Museum.